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notalenderWith classes over for the semester, Arietty found herself with a lot of free time on her hands. And when a borrower was at loose ends, a borrower went, well, borrowing.
She and Eggletina were climbing up through the walls, today, exploring further than Arietty had gone before. The best borrowing in the dorms was on the lower levels, after all, where students were likely to leave bits of jewelry and food lying around. The sixth floor never had much to find, and Arietty had never ventured far for fear of running into too many gremlins, nesting away from the more frequent noise of the lower dorms. But she was bored, and feeling very brave, so she steered Eggletina further up and deeper, past the ball pit and into the dark, dusty reaches of the walls between the rooms.
The sounds back here were strange, creaking where there were no floorboards to creak, whistling where there should be no wind. Eggletina balked several times, trying to scurry back down to the more familiar fifth floor, but Arietty egged her on. The strangest places sometimes had the best borrowings, after all.
Then the floor suddenly seemed to vanish from beneath Eggletina's skittering feet, and with a sharp squeak from the rat and a gasp from her rider, they found themselves falling through the skin of the world and landing . . . somewhere else.
Arietty spent several moments rubbing poor, terrified Eggletina between the ears before she really took stock of where they'd landed. It was all concrete and metal, instead of the wood and stone of the Fandom dorms, damp where the dorm walls were dry, and smelling faintly of refuse and mold. Most of all, though, it was familiar, in a niggling, thrilling way that had a grin spreading over Arietty's face.
"Eggletina! Eggletina, we found it!" She climbed back aboard and urged her frightened rat onwards, and soon enough, the tunnel widened and she could see the lights of the Underground in the distance. "We're home!"
She was in such a rush to get back to the Underground and her borrower world, she completely forgot to make note of their path. By the time she remembered and went to relocate the portal between the London tunnels and the Fandom dorms, she'd completely lost the way. But she could find her way to James' house, and the rooms beneath the old clock, and her anxious mum and her blustering dad, and though she'd miss her Fandom friends something fierce, there was really and truly no place like home.
[ooc: and Arietty is out! She was lovely to play, but missed her family far too terribly. Thanks, all!]
She and Eggletina were climbing up through the walls, today, exploring further than Arietty had gone before. The best borrowing in the dorms was on the lower levels, after all, where students were likely to leave bits of jewelry and food lying around. The sixth floor never had much to find, and Arietty had never ventured far for fear of running into too many gremlins, nesting away from the more frequent noise of the lower dorms. But she was bored, and feeling very brave, so she steered Eggletina further up and deeper, past the ball pit and into the dark, dusty reaches of the walls between the rooms.
The sounds back here were strange, creaking where there were no floorboards to creak, whistling where there should be no wind. Eggletina balked several times, trying to scurry back down to the more familiar fifth floor, but Arietty egged her on. The strangest places sometimes had the best borrowings, after all.
Then the floor suddenly seemed to vanish from beneath Eggletina's skittering feet, and with a sharp squeak from the rat and a gasp from her rider, they found themselves falling through the skin of the world and landing . . . somewhere else.
Arietty spent several moments rubbing poor, terrified Eggletina between the ears before she really took stock of where they'd landed. It was all concrete and metal, instead of the wood and stone of the Fandom dorms, damp where the dorm walls were dry, and smelling faintly of refuse and mold. Most of all, though, it was familiar, in a niggling, thrilling way that had a grin spreading over Arietty's face.
"Eggletina! Eggletina, we found it!" She climbed back aboard and urged her frightened rat onwards, and soon enough, the tunnel widened and she could see the lights of the Underground in the distance. "We're home!"
She was in such a rush to get back to the Underground and her borrower world, she completely forgot to make note of their path. By the time she remembered and went to relocate the portal between the London tunnels and the Fandom dorms, she'd completely lost the way. But she could find her way to James' house, and the rooms beneath the old clock, and her anxious mum and her blustering dad, and though she'd miss her Fandom friends something fierce, there was really and truly no place like home.
[ooc: and Arietty is out! She was lovely to play, but missed her family far too terribly. Thanks, all!]
